WWI Books by Niall Ferguson; John Buchan; Robert H. Ferrell; Joseph E. Persico

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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War; Explaining World War I is a 2000 Edition Trade Paperback in Like ...
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Ex Libris
No
Book Series
Historical
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Inscribed
No
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Edition
2000 Edition
Vintage
Yes
California Prop 65 Warning
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Type
Historical Drama
Literary Movement
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Era
1910s
Personalized
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Trade Paperback
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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ISBN
9780465057122
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465057128
ISBN-13
9780465057122
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1046199

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pity of War : Explaining World War I
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Europe / Austria & Hungary, Military / General, Military / World War I, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Niall Ferguson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-212497
Reviews
"A rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking. Ferguson is a talented writer and a versatile scholar."-- Atlantic, "An illuminating synthesis of current knowledge on the war. The reader will find plenty of fresh information and challenging ideas on the conflict's most important aspects."-- New York Times Book Review, "Brings for the first time the carnage of 1914-18 into sharp, unmystified focus. This is analytical history at its mordant best. With all its other merits, The Pity of War is also a work of grace and feeling."-- Economist, "Niall Ferguson, the enfant terrible of the Oxford history establishment...shatter[s] the display cases of the museum of World War I. Persuasive...affecting."-- Boston Globe, "There is much to admire in The Pity of War ...Niall Ferguson can confidently claim to have inherited [A.J.P.] Taylor's mantle."-- New York Review of Books, " The Pity of War is one of the most controversial histories to come along in decades. Niall Ferguson...offers a bold, revisionist account of the Great War." Washington Post-- Washington Post
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.3
Synopsis
A landmark work of history. An explosive and argumentative new book that rewrites our most basic assumptions about the causes and consequences of the First World War., From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War .
LC Classification Number
D511.F28 1999

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